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Give and Get

Updated Feb. 7, 2002 5:17 p.m. ET

RE: ( "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme") Equating the 9/11 compensation fund with a pure governmental giveaway is misleading, at best, or a conscious attempt to distort the truth. We the ones who suffered the loss did not ask the government to step in. It was the airlines who asked the government for help. When the government stepped in to help the airlines they also made sure that we could not sue the airlines. When they did that, it became the government's responsibility to take on that liability. If Mr. Hansen wants to point fingers at anyone, point them at the airlines.